Hilton biography book

Passionate Year

The text under analysis is an extract from the book “The Passionate Year” written by James
Hilton.
James Hilton wrote his first novel “Catherine Herself”.

His first big success came with the
publication of “Good-bye, ”. Some of his other books are: “We are not alone”,
“Random Harvest”, “Nothing so strange” and “Time and Time Again”.
In this text the author describes the relationship between pupils and their attitude to a new
teacher.
The title of the text excites many associations due to abstract word “passionate” the relationship
between pupils.

This text is the author’s reminiscences from his own life.
The author wrote the psychological story because he describes pupil’s everyday life and
difficulties which a new young teacher can find. The author used such stylistic devices, for
example: pun – to underline or to show us the all humoristic of this situation and so the author
wanted to show the intension, the